Heel-plate



F.. H. RICHARDS.

(No Model.)

HEEL PLATE.

Patented Aug. 30, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

' FRANCIS H. RIoIIARDs, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,208, dated August 3O 1887.

Application filed July '7, 1887. Serial No. 243,631.

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANcIs H. RIcIIARns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Heel-Plates,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of heelplates adapted for use on rubber overshoes; and it consists in the improvements hereinafter more fully set forth.

Figure l is a side elevation of a heel-plate having my improvements. Fig. 2 is a top view of the Same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view in line a a, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the heel-plate set into the heel of a rubber shoe. Fig.5 is a top view of a modified form of the improved plate. Fig. 6 is a similar view of another such modification. Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 3, Showing another kind of modification.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

The plate T is of the usual description, being ordinarily a malleable-iron casting, and of such shapes and sizes as required for the various sizes and styles of shoes. On its upper surface the plate is provided with a series of prongs, 2, sufficient in number and of proper size to Securely hold the plate by being inserted through a heel, H, Fig. 4, and having their points clinched down on the inside of said heel, as at 3.

edge, as 4, 5, or 6, adapted to be embedded in (No model.)

This is shown in 0 does not properly fit the heel throughout its length, (and a perfect fit is seldom attained,) the water is prevented free access to the base of the prongs, as in practice it otherwise generally does have. The particular form of said cut-off may be varied in several ways. In Fig. 5 they are represented composed of intersecting straight lines; but said lines may be curved. In Fig. 6 they are shown composed of curved and straight lines, some of the latter forming the side of two adjacent inclosures.- In Fig. 7 the surface, 8, within the inclosure formed by edge 4 is lower than the surface, 9, outside of said edge. In this case, owing to the elasticity of the mass of heel H, the said edge need be little, if any, above the latter surface, since the clinching of the prong draws the material of the heel down into said depression 8 and into contact with said edge.

Having thus described my invention, I claim The improved heel-plate herein described, consisting of a plate provided with puncturing-prongs for the attachment thereof to the heel, and having the dams or cut-offs, substantially as described, for preventing the free access of water to the base of said prongs, substantiall y as set forth.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

WILRUR M. STONE, WILLIAM A. LORENZ. 

